and I am so looking forward to next saturday.....

why???

reason is:

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its the end of my 1 month confinement!!!! Woohoo!!!!

Wonder will I be able to fit into my jeans once again? =p

A tiring week so far

Past few days been super tiring.... did not manage to sleep well, both in the afternoon and at night. Baby been fussing a lot these few days. we suspect that it is most likely that he is colicky because he is showing all the symptoms... Things get worse especially from evening on wards.. and at night... after his feed 4am, it will be difficult to put him back to sleep....

last night.... i was so tired while feeding him that both of us fell asleep for an hour with him in my arms... until he suddenly let out a wail!! I literally jumped out of my sleep and got to pacify him until 6am. Then after 1 hr, he started crying again.... sigh....

Today the whole day, baby been fussing and refuse to sleep, even after his bath and feeding..... each sleeping session probably only lasted 1hr (or max of 1.5hr) after a good whole 1 hour of attempt to put him to lala land. My poor boy... he is so tired.. but i think he is so uncomfortable that he cannot have a good sleep.

So since he cannot sleep, i entertained him and snapped away happily...

And finally he fell asleep....

notice he know how to cuddle his pillow!! =p

and finally Daddy is home to take over the duty to make him sleep...

he is 2 weeks old!

Little Justin is 14 days old today!!!

Time really flies.... he is already 2 weeks old... and he has changed quite a bit from the time he just arrived. In fact, he looks different every single day. =)

Little Justin on Day 2

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Little Justin on Day 14

Of cos, it has not been an easy time taking care of him for the past 2 weeks.... everyday, we are learning and finding out his patterns and habits and not forgetting the frequent feedings (both night and day)... but its all so worth it whenever he let out a sweet smile at us... or when he amuse us with his funny actions .. like this below!!

BTW>>>>I am so looking forward to the end of my confinement in 2 weeks time!!! Woot!!!

And my baby is called

So far, most people only know that my baby is called baby Justin. We did not have his chinese name ready before his birth.

Finally, we decided on our little one's name and his birth certificate was done.

So let me officially introduce my little one....

English: Justin Tay

Chinese: 郑颖泽


Checking through the naming websites, the meaning of Justin means Righteous, Just and Fair.

As for the chinese name, both of us like the name a lot, because the name encompass the things that we hope for Justin when he grows up.

颖 - means clever and with wisdom.
泽 - means '恩惠' which also means Grace of God.


So thats what we hope our little one will grow up to be... to be a righteous person, be filled with holy wisdom and most important of all, having the grace of God and be God fearing. =)

9 days of parenthood

This is the 9th day of motherhood. I must say, it is a really steep learning curve..
almost everyday I am learning something new about my baby, how to take care of the baby, how to recognise the needs of my baby, went through emotion roller coaster when baby got to be warded because his jaundice level was pretty high, how to burp the baby, how to check whether is he hungry, how to breast feed, how to increase milk supply and etc etc etc.

And of cos, the shiong-est part of all is the 3 hourly feeding, esp night feeding. The first few nights of night feeding nearly drove me and gerald mad... cos we were still trying to find out justin's drinking pattern, and we did not know how much was sufficient for him and whether was he even drinking.


But having said all that, I must say, parenthood, or rather, motherhood, has been a fulfillin experience so far.... no matter how tough it is, the moment when i see a grin or smile on Justin's face, all tiredness is worth it. Just like this:

E arrival of Baby Justin

Finally have some time to spend to blog about the arrival of my dear baby, Justin.
Better to blog down as much details as I can recall now.. will serve as a good memory and to let my boy read about it when he is bigger. =)

Last friday morning, in the early hour of 430am, i felt a discomfort feeling and what greeted me with a great morning surprise was ... MY Water Bag was Leaking!!! Initially i thought I did not hold my bladder, but after 30 seconds, I was quite sure it was the water bag that was leaking. Immediately, I wake gerald up.. thinnk he was shocked too. I then remembered that I have not done my handover as well.. haiz.. was meant to do it on friday itself... but my baby is simply too gan cheong to see this beautiful world. So i quickly log on to my office email and started to send all the handover emails as fast and as much as I can.

By 645am, i was done and went to have my bath... knowing that I won't be able to bath for at least the next 3-4 days, better to bath and wash my hair as scented as I can. After that, called my gynae and confirmed with her that I should go to the labour ward. Before admitting to the hospital, we drove to Macdonald's to buy my breakfast (must have strength to push later rite? grins)

By 830am, we were in the labour ward. Gynae came and checked and said that I was only 2cm dilated. Sianz. Must wait for another 8cm dilation before can start pushing. Going to be a day of waiting. One thing i must say, the invention of epidural is the best invention by mankind!!! Kekeke.. i opted for epidural without second thoughts, cos I want to have a natural birth. Now thinking back, if I did not opt for epidural, I think I would really have a deep phobia to have a second kid manz.

And so, after injecting the epidural (which I thought the whole process was much less scary than expected), they started to induce the contractions in me. That was 10am. And for the next 12 hours, it was nothing but waiting and waiting and moree waiting..

Finally at 10pm... the nurse said she going to call my gynae!!! Means its time for the real action liaoz. By now, I already felt the full effect of the contractions. Was shivering like crazy (so again I am soooo thankful that I had chosen epidural right from the beginning!! Hahaha!!!).


And after a 20mins push, my little prince is born!!!!

Welcome Baby Justin!!!



Our first family photo!!! =)

counting 4,3,2,1

its been 13 hrs since my water bag has ruptured, 8hrs since i am admitted to labour ward, sleeping on this bed. I was 2cm dilated when i started.. Now last checked, only 6cm. 4cm to go.... Counting down counting down... I really hope that within next 2 hrs or so, i can start pushing liao....

4 or less? Counting down

Rightfully speaking, 4 weeks to go. But since gynae and almost all the experienced mummies and daddies around me tell me that I am likely to give birth earlier than my EDD, now is really kind of a waiting game for me. =)))

Of course, I still telling my boy, be good and take his time. Don't really want him to come out now, cos I prefer him to come out when he is full term. Haha.. not like I can control when he wants to come out though. But other factors really also because workwise, I still have one more project to target to finish at least 60-75%. Going to start to do my handover today onwards, just in case anytime i will pop. =) Many people already started asking me when am I going on leave, or why am I not taking leave to rest at home and wait for delivery. Eh..tough question to answer.

On a happier note, I am finally done with the stroller and sling!! Now just waiting for the delivery. No more urgent items to be purchased for now...mission for this weekend would thus be to wash all bb's clothes and finish packing my hospital bag!